{"id":11725,"date":"2018-02-09T15:36:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=11725"},"modified":"2018-02-09T15:36:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T20:36:29","slug":"meagan-cass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/meagan-cass\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers in the Library: Meagan Cass, March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-11728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300-521x521.jpg 521w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300-199x199.jpg 199w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/104\/files\/2018\/02\/cass_300x300-18x18.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Monday, March 19, fiction writer Meagan Cass will read as part of UT\u2019s Writers in the Library reading series. Meagan Cass&#8217;s first full-length collection, <em>ActivAmerica<\/em>, published by University of North Texas Press in 2017, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. She is also author of the chapbook <em>Range of Motion<\/em> (Magic Helicopter Press, 2014), and her stories have appeared in <em>Hayden\u2019s Ferry Review, The Pinch, DIAGRAM, PANK, Joyland<\/em>, and <em>Puerto del Sol<\/em>, among many others. Dan Chaon selected her fiction for the <em>Wigleaf Top 50 Short Fictions of 2012<\/em>, and <em>Smokelong Quarterly<\/em> republished her story &#8220;Egg Toss, August 1989&#8221; in its <em>Best of the First Ten Years<\/em> anthology.  <\/p>\n<p>Cass is an Assistant Editor at Sundress Publications and has served as fiction coordinator for the <em>Best of the Net Anthology<\/em> and fiction editor for <em>Rougarou<\/em> and for <em>Stirring<\/em>. An associate professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield, she teaches courses in creative writing, publishing, and 20th\/21st-century American literature and curates the Shelterbelt Reading Series. Her degrees include an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College and a doctorate in English from the University of Louisiana Lafayette. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reading begins at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library. The event is free and open to the public; all are encouraged to attend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>There will be a brown bag Q&amp;A for students and faculty at noon in 1210 McClung Tower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mission of Writers in the Library is to \u201cshowcase the work of novelists, poets, and other literary craftsmen.\u201d Some of the best voices in contemporary literature are invited to read. The series is sponsored by the UT Libraries and the Creative Writing Program in association with the John C. Hodges Better English Fund. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Erin Elizabeth Smith, Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at the UT Libraries, at <a href=\"mailto:esmith83@utk.edu\">esmith83@utk.edu<\/a> or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/library.utk.edu\/writers\">http:\/\/library.utk.edu\/writers<\/a> for a complete schedule of Writers in the Library readings for the 2017-2018 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Writers.in.the.Library\">Writers.in.the.Library<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/utklibwriters\">utklibwriters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 19, fiction writer Meagan Cass will read as part of UT\u2019s Writers in the Library reading series. Meagan Cass&#8217;s first full-length collection, ActivAmerica, published by University of North Texas Press in 2017, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. She is also author of the chapbook Range of Motion (Magic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/meagan-cass\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,22,25,30],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Writers in the Library: Meagan Cass, March 19 - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/meagan-cass\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Writers in the Library: Meagan Cass, March 19 - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Monday, March 19, fiction writer Meagan Cass will read as part of UT\u2019s Writers in the Library reading series. 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